| I have been blessed due to the fact that I am not a | | | | Well, it was due to the simple fact that I started easily |
| "true" webmaster, but I have still been able to achieve | | | | creating pages and pages of quality content through |
| high search engine rankings for a number of keyword | | | | the blog that focused directly on those keyword |
| phrases that I need to dominate my niche markets. | | | | phrases. When it comes to SEO, content is king, and if |
| You can get great search engine rankings by following | | | | you can start to grow a nice blog, then you will grow |
| a few simple techniques and then by focusing on | | | | content fast. |
| creating your site for real people. I share this | | | | At times Google and other search engines will start |
| information with you today because I constantly see | | | | naturally visiting your website in order to spider, index |
| programs that will help improve your search engine | | | | and rank your pages, but this can sometimes take |
| rankings, but I honestly believe that most of them aren't | | | | months to happen unless you follow this next huge tip. |
| very effective. | | | | This tip is to provide Google and Yahoo with sitemaps |
| One example of the programs in which I don't waste | | | | to your website. It isn't very hard to figure out how to |
| my time is the many link building programs across the | | | | do this, and your website will start to get spidered and |
| web. Even though link building can be very important, | | | | ranked pretty fast, all for just providing the search |
| my suggestion is that you just let inbound links come | | | | engines with a "map" to your website! Just go to in |
| naturally. If you have a good website, then people will | | | | order to start submitting a sitemap to Google, or for |
| link to you. Also, if you get the chance to set up a | | | | Yahoo you can head on over to If you don't know |
| simple affiliate program, then even more people will link | | | | how to write a sitemap, then there are also programs |
| to you. | | | | across the web that will do it for you. |
| I recently read an article that said that some websites | | | | One last piece of simple SEO advice that I have to |
| with Google page ranks of 7 or higher will actually let | | | | share with you is that you should still include titles and |
| you pay them thousands of dollars per month in order | | | | meta tags in the html of your web pages. You are |
| for them to link to your website. All I can say is: WOW! | | | | also going to want to make sure that you "theme" |
| You better hope that the search engines don't find out! | | | | these pages. Even though the search engines don't |
| If you haven't heard, there can be some serious | | | | rank your websites according to the titles and meta |
| consequences for websites that have been | | | | tags like they did in the past, the search engines will still |
| discovered buying or selling link placement. | | | | use these titles and tags as a "guide" in order to see |
| O.K., so I would like to cover a couple of things that | | | | what type of content you are providing. When you |
| you can do to get easy and effective SEO without | | | | provide these titles and tags, you will want to make |
| spending a dime. Also, by following these steps, people | | | | sure you use similar keyword phrases within the body |
| will eventually start to naturally link to your website. | | | | of your web page. For example, if you had a web |
| Let's start off by further explaining the power of | | | | page on grocery savings, you would want to maybe |
| having a blog on your site. A blog is a really easy way | | | | have the title say "The Grocery Savings Zone." You |
| in order for you to build tons of good content for your | | | | would also want to make sure that the content on that |
| website and to start getting more links. Many bloggers | | | | page mentioned grocery savings a few times, and you |
| discover that they can get a lot of free exposure to | | | | would also want to have your meta tags include |
| their blogs in a short period of time. | | | | phrases similar to grocery savings. |
| Let me share an example: For one of my sites, I got | | | | Following these 3 simple techniques for SEO together |
| "slapped" by Google for the critical keyword phrases | | | | will prove to be most effective. As you grow your |
| that I needed to advertise my business. This means | | | | blog, your new posts will be easily spidered, indexed, |
| that Google wanted to charge me between $5 and | | | | and ranked because of your sitemap submissions. |
| $10 per click for those keyword phrases. In an attempt | | | | Also, by providing titles and meta tags on your other |
| to fix things, I decided that I should add a blog to that | | | | web pages, you will easily allow the search engines to |
| same website. After only a few weeks of posting, | | | | discover the main themes for your site. Before you |
| Google had started ranking my website naturally for | | | | know it, you will see high search engine rankings for a |
| the same keyword phrases that they wanted $5 and | | | | number of your pages all because you followed a few |
| $10 a click for! Why did Google change their minds? | | | | basic and effective techniques. |